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Why we can't pay attention anymore
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Social Media Is Designed to Maximally Invade Your Attention
All social mediar companies want you to pick up their ap as much as possible and scroll as long as possible. So they are designed to maximilly invade your attention. This isn't just a view of the dissidente shorm parker, one of the biggest initial investors in faceburk,. I think what you said was, we designed facebook to maximally invade people's attention. We knew what we were doing, and we did it anyway. God only knows what it's doing to our kid's brains. But i would argue there's an even more catastrophic political effect, which is something terrible happens when a business model that is designed to keep you scrolling bumps in too unintentionally.
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